Sam Altman's OpenAI stunned the world with its human-like chatbot, ChatGPT, which could answer most of your questions. It could write your emails, presentations and speeches at work or help with your child's homework – all with a well-worded prompt typed into its app. It even passed the most difficult exams in the world. And all of this when it was not connected to the internet.
OpenAI has enabled ChatGPT to browse the internet. This is the latest in a slew of new updates to the chatbot which has popularised generative artificial intelligence in the past year. Let’s take a look at these upgrades.
ChatGPT, now online
OpenAI on Wednesday announced that ChatGPT can now browse the internet in real time. This empowers the chatbot to provide users with the latest information on everything from current events to sports and entertainment.
Till now, the runaway-hit app was trained on an enormous dataset of text and code, but it could not access the internet. Its knowledge was limited to information that was available up to September 2021. This is no longer the case, as ChatGPT can now scour the web for answers to any prompts the users may send its way.
The AI startup said its latest browsing feature would allow websites to control how ChatGPT can interact with them.
It is currently only available to Plus and Enterprise users of the app, but will be accessible to all soon. «Browsing is